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The End of Letterman
Last night he had the last stand up set for his show and the stand up he chose was Norm Macdonald... my favourite too but a reasonably polarizing figure. The set itself was awesome, lots of classic bits from throughout his career, some new jokes and a couple clearly composed on the spot that night to reference Oprah being on right before him. The best line is his last one...minor spoiler ** 'what do you think you are, Mars or something' you need the context of course. **
Then his tribute at the end... you just have to see it for yourself.
I doubt there will be a more moving tribute in the last couple of episodes.
Damn, wrong category again... ah well...
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I don't watch letterman anymore but I'm really going to miss him. He's all I watched in university. I saw the drew flash, the Madonna swearfest all as they happened. I watched so much of him for years that I can't deny that he had a huge influence in my humor.
CNN posted top reasons why Dave is a comedy god and the tacobell drivethru clip is priceless. I had to stop watching it at work, I was disruptive with my laughing. I thought about it today while driving and started laughing in the car. Four yr old Emily asks, what's so funny daddy? I had no idea how best explain
On the serious side, I thought no one in broadcasting is more human when they have a moment of reflection. Dave's 9/11 opening was really powerful. Not to equate banging interns with tragedies, but when he confessed to sleeping with interns, that was something as well.
Ok, i'll watch this norm thing now. I love that jimmy Kimmel cancelled Wednesday's show cuz he said no one else should be watching anything other than Dave.
Edit.... wow jj, that's an awesome vid. My eyes welled up
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Black Barney wrote: Edit.... wow jj, that's an awesome vid. My eyes welled up
I straight up cried, twice... and then again while explaining it to someone I started tearing up again... so strange.
Then again it probably doesn't mean that much, the last few years I've been very open to crying and any little thing can set me off.
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I haven't watched him hardly at all over the past 15-20 years, though. For some reason my nighttime hours became filled with other distractions.
One cool thing is that I was able to watch a live Letterman taping (first one) this past October. My sister's lifelong wish was to see the show live, and we drove up to NY from Maryland during her east coast visit just to catch it. The guests were Lenny Kravitz and Denzel Washington. Not a perfect show, but lots of fun.
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I'm the same way lately, and I totally cried when I saw McDonald's closing that night.JonJacob wrote:
Black Barney wrote: Edit.... wow jj, that's an awesome vid. My eyes welled up
I straight up cried, twice... and then again while explaining it to someone I started tearing up again... so strange.
Then again it probably doesn't mean that much, the last few years I've been very open to crying and any little thing can set me off.
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In fact, my favorite little bit of Letterman footage, is when he had Warren Zevon on for the whole show after Warren found out he was going to die of cancer. Dave was a big fan of Warren's and Zevon was not only on many times, but also filled in for Paul quite a bit.
Here's the last song Zevon played in his final live performance:
Supposedly, backstage after this taping, Warren gave Dave the guitar he used in all his Late Show appearances saying something along the lines of 'You were the best friend my music ever had."...or something like that.
Touching.
Enjoy Every Sandwich.
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I just watched that Zepplin interview and it seemed fine to me. I don't think Dave was a huge fan really but he knew it was a big deal to interview them... I actually kind of like the question he poses.. most interviewers would say "you're known as the first metal band" or 'the loudest rock band' or... but he gives them the opportunity to choose their own words which I have to say as a musician I would much prefer. That said I'm not a huge Zepplin fan so I wouldn't be offended by how he understood them.
I, much like everyone else here, haven't really watched late night TV in years (other than multiple youtube clips) but when I do see them I prefer Daves big goofy grin. I like to think that Jay would have never allowed Andy Kaufmann so much leeway (who would back then), most hosts wouldn't have allowed Harvey Peaker (even though he bitched about it), late night hosts didn't have fights or let guests call them assholes on air (like Cher did).. Dave was kind of human.. yes, an ass too, but human none the less and it was refreshing at the time. Whenever I hear a little chunk of brutal honesty from John Stewart of Jimmy Kimmel I notice Letterman's comedic touch in it.
Still that was an awesome week-end for stand up. Norm on Friday night, Louis CK on Saturday night... you don't see that too often.
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In so many of his jokes, there are like 6 different ways they're funny. I love that guy.
I think my favourite part was, "you'd think that would be over in like 5 minutes, but turns out it was actually close!"
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Mr. White wrote: I was always indifferent of Late Night talk show hosts, but if I had to pick a favorite, it would be Dave simply because I felt he had the best musical guests.
In fact, my favorite little bit of Letterman footage, is when he had Warren Zevon on for the whole show after Warren found out he was going to die of cancer. Dave was a big fan of Warren's and Zevon was not only on many times, but also filled in for Paul quite a bit.
Here's the last song Zevon played in his final live performance:
Supposedly, backstage after this taping, Warren gave Dave the guitar he used in all his Late Show appearances saying something along the lines of 'You were the best friend my music ever had."...or something like that.
Touching.
Enjoy Every Sandwich.
I'm a long time Warren Zevon fan. I remember that show too. I also have very fond memories of meeting Warren Zevon in person when I worked a security detail for one of his concerts in New Orleans at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville. His opening band was "X".
For any Zevon fans, let me give you a tip. Immediately go and download his live concerts and radio interviews on archive.org. You'll thank me later. It shows so much of his personality.
archive.org/search.php?query=warren%20zevon
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Good on ya!
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